Lesbian

Lesbian is currently the most usual and acceptable term for homosexual women (women who are sexually attracted to women).

It derives from the Greek island of Lesbos (Greek Λέσβος – pronounced Lesvos in Modern Greek), the home of the woman poet Sappho (Σαπφώ; c.620–570 BC) some of whose poems talk of love for other women.

The sculptor Maggi Hambling prefers the term lesbionic.

The first National Young Lesbian Summer Camp 1984 (Lorraine Trenchard papers in the The Bishopsgate Institute Archives)

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